Notes From my journal

You feel strange. The same way you would probably feel if an invisible hand suddenly reached out and clasped your throat. Those radio jockeys ( the ones you listen to as an afterthought) become your single source of information. Collectively, they rue the lack of fire fighting equipment in Calcutta. 

People jumping off buildings. People bursting into flames. People looking on helplessly.

The firefighters arrive after 85 minutes. You do not know that yet. You read about it in tomorrow's newspapers. 

Marked in beautiful bold letters are cold statistics of warm blood.

Comments

Anushka said…
The more I'm reading of it in the papers, the more upset I'm getting. The squabble over the identification, and the 18 people rushing to arrive at a locked door were the WORST parts for me. Some people threw up out of fear. God, what a pathetic, screwed up, SICK world we live in.
Ritwik Goswami said…
Something about the black headlines brings to recall the charred corpses.
Similarities.

And the bodies near the terrace door, all stacked on top of each other. Anushka, I agree. Scarring.